My greatest moment

I suppose the thing people will be talking about most in regards to this film is what memory to choose from one’s own life. When the concept was introduced in the film it took only a moment for me to think of what mine would be. Early on in high school my Mother, one of my brothers, and I were coming home from shopping at some grocery store. Beyond reason, and logic I convinced my mother to buy one of those big 2 liter bottles of Coca-Cola, something that never happened. Carrying it out of the car on the way to the house I fumbled and dropped it on the gravel. Upon retrieving the coveted item I noticed a tiny hole in the side, which the precious liquid was spraying out rapidly. I did the only thing a man could do in this situation, I placed my mouth around the coke’s new exit point. The next minute was pure ecstasy as I drank about a liter of coke in that time. Finally we got the hole plugged up, and that was when I realized, however petty it was, that this was the greatest moment of my life. I told myself afterwards, that it would be a shame having to tell my children someday that their birth was not the greatest moment for me, but that moment belongs to Coca-Cola, which will always be my open happiness.